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7 ^ ' If Los Angeles - January 14, 19U2 *-733» Ky*;;W, n, Jeff ora: |L Bequest for Baliro&d authority to expwad /7 fo5 ,700, chargeable lav., in the drilling of two additional wells and Installation of other facili­ties at Lae Vegas, Nev., to furnish additional water for sale to LVIAW Co. and to furnish fire proteotion for the reservoir. Included in Ipifi budget. It now seems apparent that Federal authorities are not going to oonstruet a separate townslte, with Lake Mead water, for the Magnesium employee. The,housing situation in Las Vegas today is in an aoute state, and no positive etepe have been taken toward adequate re­lief. The McNeil Housing Corporation has started oonstruetion of the first unit of SO houses, and it ie possible that this pro­test will be extended in units of $ 0 to as many as SO© houses, Another project is about to be opened up on the property recently purchased from the Land Co., and it appears there will be at least SO, and perhaps acre, homes constructed on that site. A number of other projects are under consideration which have not reached a definite status. Magnesium Co. estimates it will have, for the plant now under construction, from 4,000 to 4,50© employes, and indicate! there it possibility of enlarging the plant. Mo doubt some of these employes will find homes In Boulder City, and sons will scatter in tent houses or small shaoks in tht surrounding terri­tory, but I think it safe to assume that for Baslo Magnesium e*Xwm